Tuesday, 8 September 2009

Experiment 7 on Ms Windows Live Flashdisk

Before these experiments, I would like to have a flashdisk which can run live to boot a machine. The flashdisk contains Ms Windows system files. Below is my email contents sent by email to my colleagues at Strathclyde on 11 December 2008.

I just wanna share again my successful experiment last night. It is about how to make Ms Windows OS Live Flash disk, so that we can boot a computer through flash disk containing Ms Windows OS live.
The tools we need are BartPE and PeToUSB running under Ms Windows OS. The first thing to do is running BartPE, then enter the path to the source of MS WIndows OS files, for instance CD-ROM drive. There are two choices on 'Media Output' namely 'Create ISO Image' or 'Burn CD/DVD', so we can select what we wanna do. For my experiment, because CD-ROM drive has been occupied by original Ms Windows OS CD, so I select 'Create ISO Image', after all, just click 'Build'.
After the 'Building' process finishes, I run CD burning application to burn the ISO Image file into a CD. Still BartPE CD is in the CD-ROM drive, run PeToUSB, then enter the source path of BartPE files, in this case it is CD-ROM drive and check the box on 'File Copy Options' to enable it, after that just click 'Start'. After this process completes, We can have bootable flash disk which can run Ms Windows OS live.
Actually I have tried Unetbootin and USB Startup Creator from Ubuntu 8.10. Eventhough the process of planting bootable BartPE system finishes successfully, the flashdisk can not work. However Unetbootin and USB Startup Creator still can be used to make flash disk become bootable running on Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Helix and so on.
I hope this could be useful in a positive meaning.

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I have been working for Indonesian Police Forensic Laboratory Centre (Puslabfor Bareskrim Polri) since 1997. My current job is the Chief of Computer Forensic Sub-Department. I have core duties to handle digital forensic investigation and analysis on electronic and digital evidence. I am the pioneer of developing computer forensic capabilities at Puslabfor Bareskrim Polri which was started in around 2000. Last year, in 2012 I and my team successfully investigated and analyzed 488 items of evidence which came from 81 cases of computer crime and computer-related crime.
In 2012 I wrote a book with the title "Digital Forensic: Practical Guidelines for Forensic Investigation". Its contents is mostly from knowledge and science I got from joining the MSc in Forensic Informatics at the University of Strathclyde, in the UK in 2008/2009 through the Chevening Scholarships. In 2010, the British Council in Indonesia gave me a prestigious award as one of "The Super Six UK Alumni".